TOURNIÈRES, Robert - b. 1667 Caen, d. 1752 Caen - WGA

TOURNIÈRES, Robert

(b. 1667 Caen, d. 1752 Caen)

French painter. He began his artistic training with the Carmelite Lucas Delahaye, but a decisive influence on his future development was meeting Bon Boullogne, whom Tournières accommodated in his studio in Paris. There Tournières made copies of paintings of the Dutch School. He also worked as a copyist in the studio of France’s most successful contemporary portrait painter, Hyacinthe Rigaud.

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This subject was popular in the 17th century.

Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 20 minutes):

Fran�ois Couperin: Les Nations - La Fran�aise

Count Ferdinand Adolf von Plettenberg and his Family
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Count Ferdinand Adolf von Plettenberg and his Family

Tourni�res depicted Count Adolf von Plettenberg with his wife and two children. Family harmony and a good name earned by a productive life are fundamental ideals in the bourgeois set of values and they appear in this painting.

Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 18 minutes):

Jean-Baptiste Lully: Le bourgeois gentilhomme, suite

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Portrait of Unknown Woman as Hebe

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